DevOps Contracts in Essex

DevOps
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.25% 15.64% 14.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 19.08% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 21
10th Percentile £458 £423 £500
25th Percentile £458 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £534 £592
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% -9.80% +14.95%
75th Percentile £475 £598 £650
90th Percentile £476 £666 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.40
25th Percentile - - £47.25
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £77.75
90th Percentile - - £78.80
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 173 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.51% 81.99% 84.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 90 131
10th Percentile £193 £194 £223
25th Percentile £315 £350 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £483 £560 £551
90th Percentile £510 £600 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 45 17
10th Percentile - £10.42 £22.02
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.17 £24.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £59.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +36.37% +61.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £152.00 - £72.56
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Essex.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Brentwood +3 1 £468 +24.67%
Basildon -1 1 £465 -22.50% 9
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI